“The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.”
qualis quisque sit scies, si quemadmodum laudet, quemadmodum laudetur aspexeris.

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

“If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.”

“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”

“Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”

“Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart.
I just don't think it'd understand.
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, he might blow up and kill this man.”